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Hardin County approves FY2025–26 budget amendment, adopts Appropriations Resolution 2025-34

Hardin County Board of Supervisors · January 7, 2026

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Summary

Supervisors approved a fiscal-year 2025–26 budget amendment and adopted Appropriations Resolution No. 2025-34, rebudgeting ARPA and local option sales tax funds for juvenile detention, foster care, sheriff communications and economic development projects.

Hardin County supervisors opened a public hearing and voted to adopt a FY2025–26 budget amendment and Appropriations Resolution No. 2025-34 during their Dec. 31 meeting.

Speaker 2, who presented the budget amendment, said the largest single change was an increase for juvenile detention expenses of approximately $100,000; the transcript also references a previously budgeted amount of $60,000. Speaker 2 said the county is increasing general assistance for foster care payments by $5,000. "If we can get them out of detention, get them in the foster care, saves us a lot of money, and it's also better for the children," Speaker 2 said during the hearing.

The amendment also rebudgets federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) allocations: about $18,000 for sheriff's radio communications equipment that must be contracted by the end of the year, and a separate ARPA allocation referenced for the Power River Trail bike project (transcript phrasing). Speaker 2 said local option sales tax money is being used to add $50,000 to economic development projects and that $25,000 of earlier funding was used for a daycare system. Drainage administration fee revenue of $17,000 was noted and $15,000 appropriated to cover related legal fees.

Speaker 6 raised a question about publication of the hearing notice; Speaker 2 confirmed the notice ran in three papers and that publication could be verified. After closing the public hearing, Speaker 4 moved to adopt Appropriations Resolution No. 2025-34 and Speaker 2 seconded. No further discussion was recorded and the supervisors voted in favor; Speaker 2 announced the motion carried.

The amendment rebudgets several restricted and locally designated revenue sources rather than increasing levy authority. The resolution as adopted will permit county staff to proceed with the contracted ARPA communications purchase and to release the noted local option sales tax and ARPA funds into the current fiscal year's budget.